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2010 Clark County Fair Derby #1; Marshall, IL
Topic Started: Jun 6 2010, 12:18 AM (286 Views)
craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

Marshall decided to have two derbies during their Clark Co. fair this year with the first one being held a day before the official day the fair starts. Car count was extremely low tonight. They had two heats of full size with no more than 6 in either and a 1 run feature of 8 compacts. Several factors are the cause of this I suspect. For starters, Cayuga, Indiana ran their first derby tonight as a fundraiser for the local fire dept. Most of the officials for that show are from nearby Paris, IL and they are drivers that typically run the Marshall show. There were also other shows in the area with one in Lafeyette, Indiana a couple hours north and a Show Time Promotions show 2 hours south in southern Illinois.

At Marshall they allow full seam welding on the frames, hump plates, and leaf spring conversions with up to 9 leafs per side. Mid 70s Mopars and early 70s Caddies seem to the choice for these type of shows.

With only 20 cars total, the show only lasted one hour and a half. The shortest derby I've been to. With the track pretty dry, the compact and full size features were fast paced. For whatever reason, two of the full size cars that didn't qualify for the feature were allowed to compete in it. :rolleyes:

Heat #1

Shawn Robison in a '96 Caprice. This is the same car he ran at Husker Havoc in Nebraska back in May.
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Chrysler New Yorker Wagon
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Tilted 80s box Lincoln
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Heat #2
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#76 Dave Matherly of West Terre Haute, Indiana trashes an 80s Ford. Dave's car is a 'Caddyback' which uses the combination of the front doghouse/frame section from a '76 Cadillac and the rear frame section/suspension from a chevy roundback wagon. This was the same car he ran at Cayuga, Indiana last year at least 3 times, winning once. They outlawed the car in effect by disallowing such frame swaps.
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The remains of what was a stock '86 Ford. Never a good idea to run a pure stock car in a full weld idea! :D
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The compacts put on a really good show.

Dustin Bennent from Casey, IL in an AMC Spirit.
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Jason Hall from Paris, IL in an '82+ Camaro.
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The winner in compacts.
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Dave in the Caddyback would end up on the logs with 3rd place and 1st and 2nd place was battled out for about 10 minutes between the 1/2 Time '71 Caddy and the T3 Chrysler New Yorker.
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The T3 of Steve Tracy had some tire issues and ended up overheating. The 1/2 Time caddy took 1st place.

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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Thanks for the pics- looks like it was an entertaining (if short) show!
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